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Lieke Klaver ahead in the women's 400 metres final

... that a 400-metre race in 2025 (pictured) was won by Lieke Klaver, who pretended that an absent competitor was running in front of her?
... that the land snail Drymaeus poecilus is notable for the striking variety of colors and patterns on its shell?
... that a forensic investigation of Signalgate has determined how a journalist was included in a group chat about Operation Rough Rider?
... that two of the players involved in the 2005 Vietnamese football match-fixing scandal did not accept payment because they felt ashamed?
... that a rebellion against a peace treaty with the Yuan dynasty operated out of the Historic Site of Anti-Mongolian Struggle on Jeju Island?
... that Nathan Frink fled the United States with enslaved children to settle in Canada, where he was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly and caught in a smuggling conspiracy?
... that Seattle's women's ice hockey team has an expected rival, despite not even having played their first game?
... that Cave Johnson Couts was separately acquitted for shooting his foreman, firing on funeral mourners, and whipping a native laborer to death?
... that characters' scars in an episode of The Last of Us were made with a paste-based appliance and a food mixer?

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October 29

...that in 2001, Shelby Howard became the youngest driver to compete in an Auto Racing Club of America race at the age of 15? - (self-nom) --D -Day ^{I'm all ears How can I improve?} 11:48, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

...that Slovenian basketball player Miha Zupan currently stands to become the first deaf player ever in Europe's principal club competition, the Euroleague? — (self-nom) Dale Arnett 10:45, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

...that Flow my tears by John Dowland is not only his most popular song today, but was also the most widely known English song of the period? self-nom, Mak (talk) 01:49, 29 October 2006 (UTC) [reply]

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...that much of what we know about James Clark McReynolds, one of the most unpleasant men ever to serve on the United States Supreme Court, was recorded in a memoir by the otherwise unknown John Frush Knox? (self-nom) ubiquity 12:04, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

...that Kaka Joginder Singh (alias Dharti Pakad) contested and lost over 300 elections in his 36 year political career? (self-nom) Bakaman _Bakatalk 15:16, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

October 28

...that Nellie Y. McKay, co-editor with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. of the Norton Anthology of African-American Literature, passed away in 2006 without ever telling her colleagues her true age? (self-nom) --Dhartung | Talk 03:54, 29 October 2006 (UTC)----[reply]

or ... had to photocopy classic African-American literature such as Native Son by Richard Wright for her classes because in 1979 they were out of print? Note: I like this best as the WP:CSB angle.

or ...that the Norton Anthology of African-American Literature, co-edited by Nellie Y. McKay with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., was selected by Rita Dove for a time capsule kept by the National Archives that will be opened in the 22nd century? Note: I may put together an article separately on the time capsule, so this could wait. --Dhartung | Talk 07:54, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

...that Scent of Mystery was the first and only feature-length film to use Smell-O-Vision? --(self-nom) howch e ng {chat} 01:35, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...that Joost van Dyk, a 17th century Dutch privateer and sometimes pirate and slaver, established the first permanent European settlements in the British Virgin Islands? (self nom) Legis 18:10, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

...that Picardo Farm, Seattle's oldest P-Patch (allotment garden), is known not only for its black, peaty soil, but also for a controversial statue of a naked, pregnant Venus? - Jmabel | Talk 09:04, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Found something writing about in my own neighborhood. - Jmabel | Talk 09:04, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...that the Warrior arcade game is considered to be the first versus fighting game and was released over a decade before the genre became popular? - Pluke 00:09, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

...that, after the ownership of the Château de Rosny, the birthplace and seat of Henri IV's minister Duc de Sully, passed to a Japanese company in 1984, it was largely stripped of its furniture and fell into neglect? --article by User:DVD R W, nom by Ghirla ^-трёп- 14:33, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...that Slant magazine said the Hilary Duff song "I Am" (2004) was "what Alanis Morissette might sound like if she had a lobotomy"? (Self nomination.) Extraordinary Machine 02:23, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...that Peary Chand Mitra, a member of Derozio’s renowned Young Bengal group, author and journalist, played a leading role in the Bengal renaissance with the introduction of simple Bengali prose which everybody could understand, an effort that gained him the title of ‘Dickens of Bengal’? (self nom) – P.K.Niyogi 04:57, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

File:Äldre Västgötalagen.jpg

...that the Västgötalagen, a text describing medieval provincial laws, is the oldest example of Early Swedish literature to survive in its entirety? (Article by Fred Chess, nom by GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 16:25, 28 October 2006 (UTC))[reply]

...that the Opening of the Fifth Seal, a canvas painting by El Greco, has been suggested as the inspiration for a number of Pablo Picasso's earlier works? (Article by Yannismarou, nom by GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 16:37, 28 October 2006 (UTC))[reply]
...that United States Army Lieutenant Colonel Charles S. Lawrence was threatened with court martial from General Douglas MacArthur's staff if he threatened to confiscate nearly 2,000 cans of food from stores sympathetic toward the Japanese during the Battle of Bataan in 1941-2? Chris 19:21, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...that modern digital sundials display the current time with numerals rather than marking it with position? --Beaumont (@) 20:25, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

...that artists of the Mission School, a San Francisco-based contemporary art movement, often make artworks from materials such as house paint, spray paint, correction fluid, ballpoint pens, and scrapboard?

...that Sigrid Hjertén (pictured), a crucial figure in Swedish modernism, suffered from schitzophrenia and tragically died following an awkwardly performed lobotomy? --selfnom by Odengatan 11:27, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

October 27

...that temperance leader William E. "Pussyfoot" Johnson lost his right eye after he was captured by a mob of medical students and paraded through the streets of London? --Allen3 ^talk 18:14, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...that in 1943, Prigat, a small and newly created juice manufacturer at the time, sold 775,000 syrup bottles to the British Army in Israel? (Self nomination) Michaelas10 (T|C) 15:46, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- I love Prigat, and I honestly did not know about its history in supplying the British military. But the article is a bit short... not counting the timelines, which are not prose paragraph content. If you can find a way to expand it a bit, I'll put it up on DYK. LordAmeth 23:24, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

...that the Shell Service Station in Winston-Salem, North Carolina was chosen for the National Register of Historic Places as an example of folly architecture, and over $50,000 has been spent restoring it to its original condition? (article by A mcmurray, nom by GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 07:51, 27 October 2006 (UTC))[reply]

...that Pontus Hultén was an art collector and pioneering museum director who wanted modern art to be accessible to the public in a user-friendly viewing storehouses? by user:Odengatan, nom by Camptown 19:19, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...that Providence, Ohio became a ghost town in the mid-nineteenth century after suffering both a catastrophic fire and a cholera epidemic? (article by Eran181, nom by GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 20:32, 27 October 2006 (UTC))[reply]
...that, despite the name, Mrs. Chippy, the ship's cat on Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was actually male? (self-nom) Yomangani ^talk 23:40, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reverence

Reverence

...that the sculpture Reverence which depicts two whale tails, is on permanent display in the U.S. state of Vermont, which is the New England region's only landlocked state? (self-nom) Dismas|^(talk) 22:08, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

...that Main Market Square in Kraków is the biggest medieval market square in Europe? -- article by User:MD, recently destubbed and expanded by _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk} 02:46, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

October 26

... held every year since 1913, the Valley Forge Pilgrimage is the oldest annual Scouting event in the United States? (self nom) --evrik 22:58, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Simply beginning with the usual word "that" would make it sound awkward, so how about: ... that the Valley Forge Pilgrimage, held every year since 1913, is the oldest annual Scouting event in the United States? Art LaPella 23:50, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - Okay with me. --evrik 15:05, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...that the large pothole in Archbald Pothole State Park in Pennsylvania formed about 13,000 years ago in the Wisconsin glaciation, but was not discovered until 1884 by a coal miner? Dincher 18:21, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

...that Wordlock is a brand of combination lock, different from traditional examples in that it has letters on its dials instead of numbers? (self nom) -- CountdownCrispy ^{( ?} 23:05, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...that Aloisia Veit, Hitler's insane cousin, was killed in a room pumped full of carbon monoxide, in December 1940?
...that in 1964, British historian Arnold Hugh Martin Jones wrote what's still considered the definitive history of the late Roman and early Byzantine empires? (self-nom) Dppowell 03:43, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...that Metop-A is the first polar orbiting satellite launched by Europe, and is the largest satellite launched since ENVISAT in 2002? (self nom) -- Yorkshiresky 10:38, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...that the early musical influences of Austrian jazz-fusion guitarist Alex Machacek, who has been praised by legends like John McLaughlin, included heavy metal bands like Iron Maiden and KISS? (self-nom) --N R S | ^T/_M\^B 11:30, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...that in 1994, a wild Bottlenose dolphin in Brazil named Tião killed one man and seriously injured a second after they had been harassing the animal? (self-nom) BabyNuke 17:59, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...that the Count d'Orsay's poodle inspired Edwin Landseer to paint Laying Down The Law? (self-nom) Yomangani ^talk 21:18, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

File:Greatwesternhospital.JPG

...that the outside of the Great Western Hospital is covered in 9090 square yards (7600 m²) of cream coloured precast concrete cladding panels which each weigh 14 tonnes (14000 kilograms) and span 2.43 yds (7m) x 1.46 yds (4m)? (self nom)— Rod ^talk 23:00, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
That's a lot of number-units for one nom. How about cutting it off after tonnes, since it's already a metric unit and the dimensions aren't that important? With other minor MoS fixes that'd make it:
...that the exterior of the Great Western Hospital is covered with 9090 sq yd (7600 m²) of cream-coloured precast concrete cladding panels, each weighing around 14 tonnes? GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 07:44, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
If this one is used, I would suggest putting the metic area first, since that's the number that the article's source gives, i.e. "7600 m² (9090 sq yd)" and maybe giving the calculated imperial area in square feet (it's 81,800 square feet) since that is a more common unit. -- AJR | Talk 10:33, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK how about ...that the outside of the Great Western Hospital is covered in 7600 m² (9090 sq yd) of cream-coloured precast concrete cladding panels, each weighing around 14 tonnes? --— Rod ^talk 17:18, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

...that although Scottish socialist John McGovern was the treasurer of the Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation, he later became an Independent Labour Party Member of Parliament? (self nom) Warofdreams talk 20:55, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

October 25

...that the Black Book, a dissident manuscript, was written by Sudanese in a covert cell, who later helped form the rebel Justice and Equality Movement? (self-nom) - Banyan Tree 22:15, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...that Peotone Mill, a windmill built in 1871, was donated to the village of Peotone, Illinois in 1982 after being idle for nearly a century, and was registered on the National Register of Historic Places in the same year? (Nominated by Daniel.Bryant (talk · contribs · logs), created by Hurricanehink (talk · contribs · logs). Nominated at 12:26, 24 October 2006 (UTC))[reply]

...that Charles Edward Magoon was appointed as Minister to Panama while already serving as the Governor of the Panama Canal Zone, to prevent any further disagreements between those two offices? Self-nom, expanded from a short stub. Might be able to come up with a more pithy summary... JRP 04:48, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...that during the Mexican-American War, a revolt by the Californio and Mexican residents of Los Angeles forced American Marines to surrender Fort Moore? -- (Self-nom) Bobak 02:00, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...that the June bug epidemic, in which 62 US textile workers complained of serious symptoms from being bitten by a non-existent bug, is a classic example of hysterical contagion? --Steve 02:58, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Borderline lenghtBlnguyen (bananabucket) 01:13, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...that RAF Wing Commander George Salaman was the last Englishman to be imprisoned in the Tower of London when he impersonated a Luftwaffe officer to entrap Rudolf Hess who was captured while parachuting into Scotland? --Steve 05:03, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If the work on this article is complete, can the main editor please remove the reference and stub tags. Tintin (talk) 06:35, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Stub removed and written reference is cited. --Steve 00:13, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

- - Borderline length.Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:13, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...that the founding members of independent video production company WAD Studios were responsible for "The Bubble Tent Club" which started as an inflatable tent made of trash bags at Middle Tennessee State University and which became a fully-funded student organization within a year? Semi-self nom by Lucky 6.9 06:16, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Needs sources rather than ext link.Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:13, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...that Milt Gross, writer of comics that used Yiddish-inflected English, also wrote a 1930 "silent" graphic novel He Done Her Wrong: The Great American Novel and Not a Word in It — No Music, Too? - Jmabel | Talk 06:30, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Not quite a brand new page, but it was a sub-stub before, and now it's a fair start. - Jmabel | Talk 06:30, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - I'm guessing Milt Gross is the article. Making Milt Gross bold. Laïka 12:57, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    - Ah, yes. Of course, Milt himself was bold enough without any editorial assistance. - Jmabel | Talk 04:18, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

...that Hood Mountain has high canopy mixed oak forests, pygmy forests and expanses of rock outcrop, and also has a vulnerable plant species named for it? selfnom Anlace 23:07, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...that Edgar Cunningham is believed to be the first African-American Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America?Rlevse 10:01, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Borderline length. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:13, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
... that Matthew Robinson, older brother of Baseball Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson, was a world-class sprinter and won a silver medal in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin? (article created by User:Robertjohnsonrj) Badbilltucker 18:21, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Borderline length. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:13, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...that Daniel Pearl is a cinematographer who has worked on feature films, over 400 music videos and more than 250 commercials? The JPS^{talk to me} 22:47, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Is that a very large number. some more context would be useful for the reader. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:13, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- ...that Daniel Pearl returned as cinematographer for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, nearly thirty years after filming the original? The JPS^{talk to me} 12:16, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

October 24

...that the McLean County Courthouse and Square in downtown Bloomington, Illinois, as a Registered Historic Place, is home to multiple historic buildings built from the 1850s to the 1920s, including the old county courthouse, constructed in 1903 after the original burned in three years earlier? A mcmurray 00:57, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
...that the Peoria State Hospital grounds are said to be haunted by the ghost of "Old Book" who possessed the form of a graveyard elm tree? A mcmurray 00:21, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Contested suggestions

...that "It's 'orrible Being In Love (When You're Eight 'n a Half)", a song performed by Saturday Superstore talent-contest winners Claire and Friends was a number 13 hit in the United Kingdom singles chart in June 1986? SP-KP 21:59, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Stubby. Laïka 12:58, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - ...but not by the DYK definition of stubbiness - it passes the 1000 character test. SP-KP 17:01, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    - ...Well, it is, and there are not enough admins putting their hands up...good ol election promises....I have to be picky to keep the backlog in check. Secondly the article is basically about the song, and the part which isn't about the song is unsourced...Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:13, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

October 23

...that the Indiana Convention Center will host the National FFA convention every year up to 2012? Reywas92^Talk 18:28, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Stub.Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:13, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - Article size increaed.

Contested suggestions

...that many of the production crew gave up their salaries to produce Romeo-Juliet, the 1990 live-action theatrical release with a feline cast? (self-nom) Badbilltucker 20:21, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Stubby.Blnguyen (bananabucket) 08:25, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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